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transverse strige ; veins black-speckled ; a narrow blackish antemedian line and an 
oblique postmedian line from the apex, each with paler inner border, the latter also 
bordered externally at the apical end with green speckles; a small black orbicular spot, 
and distinct green-speckled reniform mark; a small black subbasal spot and cluster of 
green speckles, Hind wing ochreous-yellow, the base tinged with brown; a narrow 
curved black submarginal band (entirely separated from the outer margin), and a short 
broader bilobed discal band. Thorax, head, palpi, and legs above dark ochreous-brown, 
abdomen ochreous-yellow. 
Female. Fore wing ochreous-green, numerously covered with red-brown delicate 
strige, transverse lines red-brown ; some greyish-speckled spots towards the apex and 
on the disk, and a similarly coloured marginal patch from posterior angle. Hind wing 
and body as in male. ; 
Expanse 4 inches. 
Hab. India (Simla, Darjiling, Bombay); China (Shanghai); Japan. 
“Taken in forests at Simla; disturbed from the thickets in broad daylight it dashes 
off very suddenly and swiftly with a blind headlong flight, like a frightened owl.” 
(Major A. M. Lang, MS. Notes.) 
ADRIS RUTILUS, Nn. sp. 
Male. Fore wing ferruginous, crossed by darker wavy greyish-bordered fasci ; an 
indistinct antemedian transverse line and a prominent postmedian oblique black line ; 
a cluster of green speckles near the base, another on reniform mark, and a few along 
outer border of the oblique line. Hind wing orange-yellow, an elongated narrow curved 
black submarginal band, and a small short black lobate discal spot. Thorax, head, 
palpi, and fore legs in front ferruginous; abdomen above and beneath, and legs yellow. 
Expanse 34 inches. 
Hab. Ceylon. In coll. Dr. Thwaites and F. Moore. 
“¢ Larva feeds on Menispermacee.” (Dr. Thwaites, MS. Note.) 
PURBIA, n. gen. 
Both sexes with shorter wings; fore wings broad, the exterior margin straight below 
the apex, oblique, even, lobe of hind margin very broad, more so than in any other of 
the group, the excavation being also very concave. Palpi similar to those in A. tyrannus, 
but the second joint broad at its apex; fore tibie very densely tufted. 
